Plurals and Events (Current Studies in Linguistics)

Table of Contents
1 - Introduction
	1.1- "Essential Plurals"
		1.1.1 - Plurals as singular terms that refer to plural objects
		1.1.2 - Plurals as predicates in a Davidsonian logical form
	1.2 - Plurals as predicates in a Davidsonian logical form
		1.2.3 - Separation
		1.2.1- Reduction of plural predication to singular predication
		1.2.2 - First-order quantifiers and a mereology of events
		1.2.4 - Cross-reference to events
	1.3 - Basic Data
	1.4 - The Plan
2 - Plural Reference
	2.1 -Plural Reference and Predication
	2.2. - What Speakers Know about Plurals and Russell's Paradox
	2.3 - A Semantics for the Objectual View
		2.3.1 - Axioms relating singular and plural predicates
		2.3.2 - Comprehension principles
		2.3.3 - Paradox
		2.3.4 - Ways out
	2.4 - Second-Order Logic and the Semantics of Plural Terms
		2.4.1 - Syntax
		2.4.2 - Semantics
3 - Polyadicity and Plural Reference
	3.1 - Variables Must Be Sorted into Singular (First-Order) and Plural (Second-Order)
	3.2 - Exhaustive Reference to an Event's Participants
4 - Essential Separation
	4.1 - Crucial Truth Conditions for Cases of Essential Separation
		4.1.1 - A context where cases of essential separation are true
		4.1.2 - A context where cases of essential separation are false
	4.2 - Approximating Essential Separation with Polyadic Logical Forms
	4.3 - Failure with Unary, Restricted Quantifiers
	4.4 - Failure with n-ary Quantifiers
5 - Theta-Roles, Events, and Contexts of Events
	5.1 - Variable Polyadicity
	5.2 - Event Identity
	5.3 - Mereology and the Contexts of Events
	5.4 - Contexts of Events
		5.4.1 - Possible and actual individuals
		5.4.2 - Contexts of events and inferences about cumulativity
6 - A Semantics for Plurality and Quantification
	6.1 - Translation: LF to Logical Form
		6.1.1 - Negative Events
		6.1.2 - The typology of NPs and of quantifiers over events
	6.2 - Truth, Satisfaction, and Second-Order "Modalized" Quantification over Events and Their Parts
		6.2.1 - Event mereology and the interpretation of θ-roles
		6.2.2 - Event identity and interpretation
		6.2.3 - Truth with respect to a context of events
7 - First-Order and Second-Order Quantifiers
	7.1 - First-Order Quantifiers: Distributivity
		7.1.1 - The syntax and semantics of [E: ϴ[e, v]]
		7.1.2 - The interaction of ∃E and [E: ϴ[e, v]]
	7.2 - Second-Order Quantifiers
		7.2.1 - The translation of second-order quantifiers in situ
		7.2.2 - Essential separation and the interaction of first-order and second-order quantifiers
		7.2.3 - No more than one existential event quantifier in a clause
8 - Semidistributivity
	8.1 -  The Semidistributive Operator Co-
	8.2 - Semidistributively Bound Pronouns
	8.3 - Evidence against a Covert Occurence of '[∃V:Φ]' in the Logical Form of Semidistributivity
		8.3.1 - Semidistributive scope
		8.3.2 - Interactions of scope and binding
9 - Cumulative Quantification
	9.1 - The Logical Form of Cumulative Quantification
	9.2 - Cumulative Asymmetry
	9.3 - The Interpretation of '[E: Φ]'
	9.4 - Apparent Counterexamples to Cumulative Asymmetry
	9.5 - Quantifier Raising Assigns the Same Scope to Distinct Quantifiers
		9.5.1 - Long-distance cumulative quantifiers
			9.5.1.1 - Ellipsis and reconstruction
			9.5.1.2 - Adjuncts
10 - Cumulative Quantifiers and Nonmaximal Reference
	10.1 - Nonmaximal Reference and Unbound Anaphora
	10.2 - Exact Description
		10.2.1 - The first account of exact description
		10.2.1 - The second account of exact description
11 - The Cumulative Interpretation of Dependent Quantifiers
12 - Cumulative Quantification Is Not n-ary
	12.1 - An Interaction between Cumulative Quantifiers and Adverbial Phrases
	12.2 - Cumulative Quantifiers as n-ary Quantifiers
		12.2.1 - Essentially n-ary quantifiers
	12.3 - The Interaction between Cumulative Quantifiers and Adverbial Phrases
Notes
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	Appendix I
References
Subject Index
Author Index